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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:41:48 -0400
From: Kurt H Maier <khm-9@intma.in>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] APE inconsistencies
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:25:04PM -0500, Jeff Sickel wrote:
>=20
> On Mar 29, 2013, at 12:20 PM, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.co=
m> wrote:
>=20
> > the linux manual page describes hstrerror as obsolete
>=20
> Which distro?  So many to choose from=E2=80=A6
>=20

It's sort of moot, since The Man wants you to stop using gethostbyname
and friends anyway.  They're marked as 'obsolete' because POSIX.1-2001
wants you to use getnameinfo et al. instead.

Anything using gethostbyname is probably going to want herror (and thus
hstrerror) to be there.

khm